I am a theatre maker, writer and researcher. My work and research plays in the gap between how women and girls are presented in popular culture and western visual culture as a whole, and the actual lived experience of women. 

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As a Techne (AHRC) Phd Scholar (2019-2024) based at the University of Roehampton, I investigated how images of the white dead female body are entwined with empire. I argued that such images are not only evidence of an imperial imaginary but, considered as material objects, are entwined with the violence of extractivism and racial capitalism. My research proposed that live performance of poetic verbal imagery allows an attending audience to conjure the spectral violence entwined with such images. 

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I am a writer and my writing has been published in various forms including journal articles, book chapters, short stories and poetry. 

 

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​Email:  swinglerjenny@gmail.com